The night after his electrifying Cotton Bowl Classic victory, Texas A&M’s red-shirted freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel lit up the Twitterverse with questions like “Is he old enough to gamble at WinStar?” (Yes, he is.) “Is he old enough to drink champagne at Avenu Lounge in Uptown?” (No, he isn’t.)

At 8:14 p.m. Saturday night, Johnny Football tweeted a photo of himself fanning out a wad of cash at WinStar Casino, just across the state line in Oklahoma.

Wiser heads prevailed because the 20 year old promptly deleted the photo, but he did tweet, “Nothing illegal about being 18+ in a casino and winning money…KEEP HATING!”

He is correct. WinStar’s website says, “You must be at least 18 years old to enjoy any of the casino games.”

The photos that TMZ published of him at Avenu Lounge later that same evening grasping a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne are more problematic.

Deadspin, however, is reporting that Manziel was accompanied by his father, which would put him legally in the clear.

Well…slow down.

On Friday night, after the game, he showed up at Avenu still sweaty and wearing a white T-shirt and he was with his father.

The photos that TMZ has posted are from his return visit on Saturday night. (Both nights, he appears to be holding a bottle of champagne in his hand.) On Saturday, he was looking much more GQ in a purple dress shirt with a Burberry scarf draped around neck.

Before going to Avenu on Saturday, Manziel joined friends and teammates for dinner at Al Biernat’s steakhouse on Oak Lawn…and his father was not among the group. So, unless his father raced to Avenu to go clubbing with Johnny for a second night, he was without parental supervision. Deadspin also reported Avenu Lounge was in Houston. So, there’s that.

But, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if you look closely at those photos, he is not actually drinking from those (open) bottles of champagne in his hand.

Did he break the laws of good judgment? Certainly.

But just because he can rush like Emmitt Smith and pass like Troy Aikman, it doesn’t mean he can think and behave like Roger Staubach.

Back at Biernat’s, the conquering college freshman caused such a stir that the door to the restaurant’s private dining room had to be manned to keep people from crowding in on him.

“We had frantic Aggie fans and alums wanting to get a picture and autograph from him,” says Biernat’s manager Brad Fuller. “I have a feeling there will be plenty more guarded private room dining experiences in his future.”